Jonas Hahnfeld schreef op vr 19-11-2021 om 14:32 [+0100]: > > > - rx = scm_gc_malloc_pointerless (sizeof (regex_t), "regex"); > > > + rx = scm_malloc (sizeof (regex_t)); > > > > If the regex why scm_gc_malloc_pointerless -> scm_malloc? > > Is rx not pointerless? > > Not sure I understand the question. We don't know what contents libc > will write into regex_t. It could be pointers which would be bad for > the garbage collector.
OK, if that's the case, seems like a bug in the original code, not related to Java-style finalisation, so I would do that in a separate patch. Though libc probably allocates stuff with malloc and frees it with free, and we call regfree to tell libc, so I think we should be fine? Greetings, Maxime
